We had an easy trip to Atlanta yesterday.  I doped Jimmy up on pain meds and the portable oxygen canister that plugged into the cigarette lighter worked just fine.  We are on 8E (8th floor, section E) where Jimmy had both of his transplants, and where I spent a good part of 2010.  We have the same doctors and there are many familiar faces among the nursing staff, so we feel right at home.

We checked in mid-afternoon and by midnight, Jimmy had had a CT-scan and an MRI, blood tests, breathing treatments, nasal swabs ...one thing after another.  People were in and out of the room all night and all morning.  Jimmy is exhausted.

Jimmy has had "an elevated temperature" of around 100.4 since we got here.  They don't call it "fever" until it hits 100.5.  His oxygen level has dropped below 70 a couple of times, so they've increased the oxygen.  Dr. Waller said there are rales and ergophony in his lower left lung, and he believes he does have pneumonia.  They will probably do a bronchoscopy this afternoon, to try find out why the antibiotics haven't worked.

Preliminary evaluations of the MRI don't show any changes in the spine - HUGE relief.  We have been worried that he might have another compression fracture.

I know this is scattershot info, but I'll update later.

Poor baby is worn out!